Did you make any adjustments to the game for the 2nd play through, or was it vanilla?
How was having to recollect all the hard drives, sloops, and spheres? Those are the things that daunt me most as I’ve already explored most of the world, so those searches feel much less satisfying.
I did start a second play through where I unlocked all alt recipes and that made it more interesting for me since I had new ways of doing things from the get go.